I think Dweck's ideas are uncritically accepted by too many people, because we live in an age of what Charles Murray calls "educational romanticism".
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/Carol-Dwecks-Attitude/65405/ found that some studies supported Dweck's theories, and others, especially of college students did not.
'Three recent studies have found that college students' beliefs about intelligence are not correlated with their academic performance�at least not in the straightforward way that Dweck's model proposes. The authors of those studies say they admire Dweck's work, but they are less hopeful than she is that college students' performance can be turned around with a simple intervention.'
